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Song of Solomon 6:7
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Behind your veil,your brow is like a slice of pomegranate.
Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.
"Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate Behind your veil.
Your cheeks behind your veil are like slices of a pomegranate.
"Your temples are like a slice of the pomegranate Behind your veil.
Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
Thy temples are within thy lockes as a piece of a pomegranate.
Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranateBehind your veil.
Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
Behind your veil are hidden beautiful rosy cheeks.
Your cheeks are like a pomegranate split open behind your veil.
As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples Behind thy veil.
Your cheeks under your veil are like slices of pomegranate.
Your cheeks, behind your veil, are like two pieces of pomegranate.
Your cheeks glow behind your veil.
Your cheeks behind your veil are like halves of a pomegranate.
Your temples behind your veil are like a piece of pomegranate.
Thy chekes are like a pece of a pomgranate, besydes yt which lyeth hid within.
Thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate Behind thy veil.
Like pomegranate fruit are the sides of your head under your veil.
Thy temples are like a pomegranate split open behind thy veil.
As a piece of a pomegranat are thy temples within thy lockes.
Thy cheekes are like a peece of a pomegranate within thy lockes of heere.
There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.
Thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind thy veil.
As the rynde of a pumgranate, so ben thi chekis, without thi priuytees.
Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate Behind your veil.
As a piece of pomegranate [are] thy temples within thy locks.
Like a slice of pomegranate is your forehead behind your veil.
Like a piece of pomegranate Are your temples behind your veil.
The sides of your forehead are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your face-covering.
Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.
Like a slice of pomegranate, are thy temples, from behind thy veil:
(6-6) Thy cheeks are as the bark of a pomegranate, beside what is hidden within thee.
Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.
As the work of the pomegranate [is] thy temple behind thy veil.
"Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate Behind your veil.
Contextual Overview
Young Man
You are beautiful, my darling, like the lovely city of Tirzah. Yes, as beautiful as Jerusalem, as majestic as an army with billowing banners. 5 Turn your eyes away, for they overpower me. Your hair falls in waves, like a flock of goats winding down the slopes of Gilead. 6 Your teeth are as white as sheep that are freshly washed. Your smile is flawless, each tooth matched with its twin. 7 Your cheeks are like rosy pomegranates behind your veil. 8 Even among sixty queens and eighty concubines and countless young women, 9 I would still choose my dove, my perfect one— the favorite of her mother, dearly loved by the one who bore her. The young women see her and praise her; even queens and royal concubines sing her praises: 10 "Who is this, arising like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as the sun, as majestic as an army with billowing banners?"Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Song of Solomon 4:3
Reciprocal: Exodus 28:34 - General Exodus 39:26 - pomegranate Song of Solomon 4:1 - thy hair
Cross-References
Then the people began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them.
The sons of God saw the beautiful women and took any they wanted as their wives.
Then the Lord said, "My Spirit will not put up with humans for such a long time, for they are only mortal flesh. In the future, their normal lifespan will be no more than 120 years."
In those days, and for some time after, giant Nephilites lived on the earth, for whenever the sons of God had intercourse with women, they gave birth to children who became the heroes and famous warriors of ancient times.
Pairs of every kind of bird, and every kind of animal, and every kind of small animal that scurries along the ground, will come to you to be kept alive.
So Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him.
But the wicked will die. The Lord 's enemies are like flowers in a field— they will disappear like smoke.
Fear of the Lord lengthens one's life, but the years of the wicked are cut short.
The Lord has made everything for his own purposes, even the wicked for a day of disaster.
That is why your land is in mourning, and everyone is wasting away. Even the wild animals, the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea are disappearing.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
As a piece of a pomegranate [are] thy temples within thy locks. The same descriptions are given in Song of Solomon 4:3;
Song of Solomon 4:3- :; and these are repeated, to show the reality of the church's beauty, and for the sake of confirmation; and that it still continued the same, notwithstanding her failings and infirmities; and that Christ had the same esteem of her, and love to her, he ever had. That part of the description, respecting the church's lips and speech, in Song of Solomon 4:3; is here omitted, though added at the end of Song of Solomon 6:6; by the Septuagint; but is not in the Hebrew copies, nor taken notice of in the Targum; yea, the Masorah, on Song of Solomon 4:2, remarks some words as only used in that place, and therefore could not be repeated here in the copies then in use.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The section might be entitled, “Renewed declaration of love after brief estrangement.”
Song of Solomon 6:4
Tirzah ... Jerusalem - Named together as the then two fairest cities of the land. For Jerusalem compare Psalms 48:2. “Tirzah” (i. e., “Grace” or “Beauty “)was an old Canaanite royal city Joshua 12:24. It became again a royal residence during the reigns of Baasha and his three successors in the kingdom of the ten tribes, and may well therefore have been famed for its beauty in the time of Solomon.
Terrible as ... - Awe-inspiring as the bannered (hosts). The warlike image, like others in the Song, serves to enhance the charm of its assured peace.
Song of Solomon 6:5
Even for the king the gentle eyes of the bride have an awe-striking majesty. Such is the condescension of love. Now follows Song of Solomon 6:5-7 the longest of the repetitions which abound in the Song, marking the continuance of the king’s affection as when first solemnly proclaimed Song of Solomon 4:1-6. The two descriptions belong, according to some (Christian) expositors, to the Church of different periods, e. g. to the primitive Church in the splendor of her first vocation, and to the Church under Constantine; other (Jewish) expositors apply them to “the congregation of Israel” under the first and second temples respectively.
Song of Solomon 6:9
The king contrasts the bride with the other claimants for her royal estate or favor Song of Solomon 6:8. She not only outshines them all for him, but herself has received from them disinterested blessing and praise.
This passage is invaluable as a divine witness to the principle of monogamy under the Old Testament and in the luxurious age of Solomon.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Song of Solomon 6:7. As a piece of a pomegranate — See on Song of Solomon 4:3.
